People do good because they are
human,
not because they are religious!

Do not give God any credit for the good they do, they did it!

God commanded the murder of the Canaanite People

If you tell Bible Christians how the Canaanites were killed by God's people at
his command they will argue that the victims were so evil and practiced
idolatry, had no respect for marriage, were into incest, into gay sex and sex
with animals that God did the right thing.

The atheist view is that the killing could be justified only if it totally
guaranteed that letting them live would result in far more death.

We do not know how evil the Canaanites were in relation to human life. It would
be odd to suggest that a nation that killed a lot of its own should be
destroyed! And what kind of morality wants a nation that murders its own dead?
That is hypocrisy! And Christians don't make it an issue about human life - they
suggest that the other sins that didn't kill people partly justified the divine
command. They conclude that the liquidation of the Canaanites was not genocide
but capital punishment. That is hypocritical. They seem to think that killing a
nation for a sensible reason is not genocide. But capital punishment is not
about just being fair. If you kill a nation because you think they are Satan's
secret minions despite their seeming goodness that is capital punishment.
Killing people for stupid or non-existent crimes is still capital punishment.

In 2017, it was found that far from being wiped out
or nearly wiped out, there are many descendants of the Canaanites today
according to DNA proof. Dr Claude Doumet-Serhal said: “For the first time
we have genetic evidence for substantial continuity in the region, from the
Bronze Age Canaanite population through to the present day.

The Christian reply to how God told Israel to get rid of
them all and they are still there is that survival had to happen for God
directed that he would get rid little by little for the sake of the land and to
limit the animal population. Exodus 23:29 has God saying, "But I will not
drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the
wild animals too numerous for you." So he is saying he means complete
liquidation for only that would ruin the land that much. And presumably
the animals will thrive on the bodies. The text in fact confirms that we
should expect the Canaanites to have few if any descendants today. God
meant he would use Israel to wipe them out but he has not succeeded as the DNA
has proven. The Bible is
wrong. It mentions Canaanites still existing a long time after but that
does not mean the liquidation had stopped or that God had softened the command
or didn't mean he wanted them all dead. Obviously Israel was meant to hurt
them so bad that any survivors had to die out perhaps through having to wander
into enemy territory and die or inbreeding or disease. God was not
suggesting that he expected them literally to catch them all.